Creating paragraph style with colored bar bearing a graphic
Hello, first post ever I have been using Framemaker for about six or seven years, primarily within the context of a manual document template created long ago. I have forgotten how we made a particular paragraph style and need to make some more like it. This style is used for cautions and warnings in technical manuals pertaining to industrial machinery. The current ones have a colored bar running full column width, and the bar displays a graphic symbol [triangle including an exclamation point] and the word, warning or caution. Below that bar is where your entered text will appear; the specifics of your warning or caution. To be in compliance with some international styles of safety information, I need to make some more, perhaps with different symbols and certainly different words. I can't for the life of me figure out how these are constructed. Can someone here tell me how to do this? I would be happy to email some examples to someone if that was helpful or necessary. Thank you for your consideration GM ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Creating paragraph style with colored bar bearing a graphic
Gordon Maney wrote: I have been using Framemaker for about six or seven years, primarily within the context of a manual document template created long ago. I have forgotten how we made a particular paragraph style and need to make some more like it. This style is used for cautions and warnings in technical manuals pertaining to industrial machinery. The current ones have a colored bar running full column width, and the bar displays a graphic symbol [triangle including an exclamation point] and the word, warning or caution. Below that bar is where your entered text will appear; the specifics of your warning or caution. With the cursor in such a pgf, go to the Paragraph Designer Advanced tab. More than likely, you'll see that Frame Above Pgf is set to something other than None. That something is a graphics frame on a reference page. Select View Reference Pages, and you'll find the frame containing the colored bar, triangle, and word. If you check the frame's properties, you'll see it has the name that Frame Above Pgf was set to. For each similar format you want, create a new graphics frame on the ref page, give it an appropriate name, and add the content (or copy/paste from the existing one). The word is probably done as a Text Line. HTH! Richard Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 -- rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 -- ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Creating paragraph style with colored bar bearing a graphic
Gordon Maney wrote: > I have been using Framemaker for about six or seven years, primarily > within the context of a manual document template created long ago. I > have forgotten how we made a particular paragraph style and need to make > some more like it. > > This style is used for cautions and warnings in technical manuals > pertaining to industrial machinery. The current ones have a colored bar > running full column width, and the bar displays a graphic symbol > [triangle including an exclamation point] and the word, warning or > caution. Below that bar is where your entered text will appear; the > specifics of your warning or caution. With the cursor in such a pgf, go to the Paragraph Designer Advanced tab. More than likely, you'll see that Frame Above Pgf is set to something other than None. That something is a graphics frame on a reference page. Select View > Reference Pages, and you'll find the frame containing the colored bar, triangle, and word. If you check the frame's properties, you'll see it has the name that Frame Above Pgf was set to. For each similar format you want, create a new graphics frame on the ref page, give it an appropriate name, and add the content (or copy/paste from the existing one). The word is probably done as a Text Line. HTH! Richard Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 -- rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 --
Creating paragraph style with colored bar bearing a graphic
Hello, first post ever I have been using Framemaker for about six or seven years, primarily within the context of a manual document template created long ago. I have forgotten how we made a particular paragraph style and need to make some more like it. This style is used for cautions and warnings in technical manuals pertaining to industrial machinery. The current ones have a colored bar running full column width, and the bar displays a graphic symbol [triangle including an exclamation point] and the word, warning or caution. Below that bar is where your entered text will appear; the specifics of your warning or caution. To be in compliance with some international styles of safety information, I need to make some more, perhaps with different symbols and certainly different words. I can't for the life of me figure out how these are constructed. Can someone here tell me how to do this? I would be happy to email some examples to someone if that was helpful or necessary. Thank you for your consideration GM
